Former UI researcher arrested in 16-year unsolved murder case

'Relentless work' led to DNA match of husband 16 years after Bloomfield's body found

7:00 PM,
Nov. 26, 2013

John Bloomfield

Written by

Josh O?Leary
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Sixteen years ago, an Iowa City woman's body was found wrapped in garbage bags and bound with duct tape along a rural road in Illinois.

On Tuesday, investigators charged her husband, now 73 and living in St. Paul, Minn., with her murder.

Iowa City Police say a DNA match and hair samples helped authorities link the cold case death of 57-year-old Frances Bloomfield to her husband, John Richard Bloomfield, who has been charged with first-degree murder. ...